The
prestigious
Miss Commonwealth ...It's
more than a beauty pageant...
It is a unique and innovative
cultural and charity brand of beauty pageant, with a focus on community Quality
of Life improvement, and the empowerment of women. Hence its following very special and inimitable
characteristics:-
A community empowerment institution
and platform
Miss Commonwealth is globally renown for its
reputation for empowering eligible Commonwealth ladies of all age groups, as Cultural and
Charity Queens and Ambassadors, to promote their economic, social
and cultural self-improvement, and to participate, authoritatively, in the
promotion of community and environmental sustainability, in the interest of
increased community Quality of Life improvement. This empowerment platform
provides an outlet for productive and positive expression, and the release
of the community benefits, of inner beauty.
Honourable Aims and Objectives
The pageant's principal
aims and objectives are to promote increased Quality of Life improvement, through the promotions of cultural awareness
and exchange,
family values, good parenthood, children’s welfare, health, education,
poverty eradication, sport, international volunteering, community
charitableness, tourism, environmental protection, and fundraising
for registered charitable organisations and humanitarian and environmental
projects, etc.
Distinguished Culture and Charity
Queens and Ambassadors
Miss Commonwealth's queens are
specially styled and distinguished as
Culture
and Charity Queens and Ambassadors
to reflect their purpose as role models and human vehicles
for the effective promotion of the honourable community Quality of Life
improvement aims and objectives of the pageant.
The Seven Principal Beauty Queen
Title Crowns of The Commonwealth
Miss Commonwealth crowns seven
principal international queens at each of its annual or biannual
international beauty queen contests for two main reasons:
The Triple Crown
(Teen, Miss and Mrs.) promotes family
life and participation from all age groups.
The Cultural Sector Crown (Africa,
Asia-Pacific, Caribbean and Euro-Atlantic)
promotes cultural awareness, exchange, integration and excellence, etc.
The
Wide Range Of Title Crown Extensions
Miss Commonwealth introduced
numerous beauty queen title crowns reflecting its promoted aims and
objectives, in order to i)
promote wider community participation of eligible and capable Commonwealth
ladies and ii) thus, enhance and broaden the reach of its community
benefits, internationally. The aptly identified extensions include Arts,
Culture, Charity, Education, Sport, Health, Tourism, Environment, etc.
Hence, for example, the titles of
Miss Commonwealth England Culture,
Miss Commonwealth Wales Charity, Miss Commonwealth India Sport,
etc. All national titles, with or
without extension, carry equal weight.
Title Conferment Ceremony
Titles are formally conferred
upon the holders at the CICCETSS (Commonwealth International Cultural
and Charity Evening TV-Special Showcase). Non-attendance at the ceremony invalidates
pre-event awarded titles.
National Culture and Charity
Queens
Each Commonwealth nation is
represented at the CICCETSS by their respective three national Triple Crown
culture and charity queens (Teen, Miss and Mrs.) In addition, each nation
can be further represented by delegates bearing national Triple Crown titles
suffixed with any of the above title extensions, as appropriate. All
delegates have equal status as contestants, in their respective
pageants (Teen, Miss and Mrs.), for the international Triple Crown
titles of Miss Teen Commonwealth International, Miss Commonwealth
International, and Mrs. Commonwealth International.
Commonwealth
International Cultural & Charity Evening TV-Special Showcase:
A
unique and spectacular not-for-profit annual international community
quality of life improvement promotion programme
of 53
Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific, African, and Caribbean nations,
represented by their respective national Culture and Charity Ambassador (CCAs), aged 16-60.
Its aims and objectives are to bring a wide range community benefits to
all nations and people.
Aims, Objectives
and Community Benefits of the CICCETSS
To
showcase and promote increased Commonwealth community charitableness and
cultural excellence, awareness, exchange, understanding and unity.
To
stage the public selection and crowning of CCAs at the annual or bi-annual
Miss
Commonwealth International Contest and the Queen Of Friends Of the
Commonwealth Contest.
(CICCETSS now has an army of over 700 active and productive CCAs
around the world).
To promote
increased community awareness and understanding of Miss Commonwealth.
To
highlight CCAs’ community function as role models and promotional vehicles
for the delivery of Miss Commonwealth’s principal aims and objectives, and
their contributions to quality of life improvement
in the international community.
(CCAs'
contributions to international community well-being span all areas of the
pageant's aims and objectives and include
their record achievement of over £4Million fundraising for registered
charities around the world in the 24 months to December 2006).
To
promote the essence, and celebrate the successful achievements and
impressive track record, of Miss Commonwealth (and the sister pageant)
as a highly productive community empowerment institution and platform
of 53 Commonwealth nations. The pageant
is
globally renown for its principal goal of inspiring and enabling
the transformation of ordinary eligible Commonwealth female citizens of
all age groups and walks of life into socially and economically equipped CCAs who
go forth to make a difference in their local and wider communities by contributing
socially, economically and culturally to community and environmental
sustainability and to improvement in the Quality of Life.
To
raise wider awareness of Miss Commonwealth’s aims and objectives, namely,
the said
promotions of cultural awareness,
family values, good parenthood, children’s welfare, health, education,
poverty eradication, sport, international volunteering, community
charitableness, tourism, environmental protection, and fundraising
for registered charitable organisations and humanitarian and environmental
projects, etc.
To increase community
awareness of Miss Commonwealth’s promotion of increased “International
Volunteering” through the awards of the International
Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental Services
(IVHES) Awards, at the Evening, to nominated community champions,
for the recognition and promotion of commendable voluntary endeavour.
(Proud
previous recipients of the awards include the honourable Dr Nelson
Mandela of South Africa).
Envisaged and Achieved Benefits of CICCETSS and
Miss Commonwealth Pageant to Countries and Citizens
Benefits for Commonwealth nations:-
1 All nations will gain a unique
centre (the CITEC) for investment, trade, training, education, and cultural
exhibition.
2. Local cultures will be given increased global exposure, and be better
regarded and valued by the citizens and the rest of the world.
3. Increased global tourist interest in each nation’s culture and heritage
will lead to increased revenue from tourism.
4. Local textiles, fashions, and arts and crafts will influence the
development of allied industries locally and abroad (with increased foreign
exchange capacity, as an added community benefit).
5. National costumes and designers will enjoy global publicity and
appreciation, in addition to opportunities to gain Best Fashion and Best
Designer Merit Awards in respect of costume designs for Miss Teen, Miss, and
Mrs Commonwealth.
6. Each nation will enjoy the Organisation’s contribution towards
environmental protection.
7. Opportunities for international volunteer educational exchange programmes
will result in increased educational and knowledge gains for each nation.
8. Participation in Miss Commonwealth Organisation Volunteer programme, with
substantial community benefits, economically, sociologically, culturally,
and environmentally.
9. The Organisation’s contributions towards national scientific research
programmes will enhance the progress of scientific developments in each
nation.
10. Increased
spirituality and enlightenment of each nation's people
11. Greater international peace between nations.
Benefits to the citizens:-
1.
Gain of more knowledge about their own and other countries’ cultures and
cultural heritage.
2.
Opportunity to interact socially and
economically with people in other countries, and to make new friends,
globally.
3.
Gain of increased access to education and training, especially of young and
older women, and mothers.
4.
Increased help for people with physical and
mental disabilities.
5. A wide range of international volunteering opportunities to take
advantage of.
6. Privileged access to Miss Commonwealth Pageant’s recreational and
educational facilities in all Commonwealth member-states.
7. Opportunity to contribute material to, and gain cultural, educational,
and economic fulfilment from, Miss Commonwealth Television and Radio.
Other Community
Benefits:-
The
CICCETSS brings many community benefits, including its following
priorities:-
·
Its
influential image credibly reflects, and promotes the Ideals and the
continuous re-invigoration of, the Commonwealth.
·
It promotes
cultural awareness, education, exchange, understanding, unity and
excellence.
·
It promotes
and influences increased community charitableness and exercise of
inner beauty.
·
It promotes
the use of Miss Commonwealth as a community empowerment platform for
the economic, social and cultural self-development of Commonwealth ladies,
and for their transformation into official and productive national and
international Cultural and Charity Ambassadors, who function as
philanthropic role models and vehicles for the promotion of ‘Quality
of Life’ improvement activities at home and abroad.
·
It
encourages and facilitates the joint participation of Cultural and Charity
Ambassadors of all age groups and cultural backgrounds across
the Commonwealth in the promotion of the common good causes which comprise
the pageant’s main aims and objectives, namely, cultural awareness,
family values, good parenthood, children’s welfare, health, education,
poverty eradication, sport, international volunteering, community
charitableness, tourism, environmental protection, and fundraising for
registered charitable organisations and humanitarian and environmental
projects, etc.
·
It promotes
increased social and economic development and participation of
women which represents an invaluable benefit to the global economy.
·
It promotes
increased international volunteering through the annual awards of the
International Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES)
Awards to nominated community champions for the recognition and promotion of
commendable voluntary endeavour. (Proud previous recipients of the awards
include the honourable Dr Nelson Mandela, etc).
·
It serves
as an opportunity for the international community to hear, and be positively
influenced by, Commonwealth Cultural and Charity Ambassadors’ personal
accounts of their individual contributions to global humanitarian
and environmental welfare.
·
It helps
small and large local, national and international charities and ecologically
reputable organisations to raise wider awareness of their existence and
contributions to Quality of Life improvement.
·
It provides
sponsorship opportunities (with associated commercial sponsor’s
benefits and rewards) which avail businesses a chance to increase their
profile in the international community, this including increased
economically rewarding exposure in the Commonwealth, and to fulfil their
corporate social responsibility obligations.
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The CICCETSS is
popularly known as a major entertainment event for all fans of cultural
education, charity, fashion, music, community champions, etc...
The CICCETTS is a
tasty and exquisite exhibition of all of these, all at once, on one
international show stage. It provides a marvellous educational and
entertainment opportunity for TV audiences around the world.
The CICCETSS is
beautifully put together for your unforgettable entertainment !!!
FOUR CONTINENTAL QUEENS
Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic (Naomi
Donald),
Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific (Nidhima Kohli),
Miss Commonwealth Caribbean
(Simone Fairweather),
Miss Commonwealth Africa
(Emma Chizimba)
QUEEN OF FRIENDS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Queen of Friends of the Commonwealth 2006/7:
Winner: Martina Benkova(Slovakia)
Ist.RunnerUp:CamillaRuby(Sweden)
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The CICCETSS show programme
(click
here for the detailed content). It includes:-
-
National CCAs’ formal empowerment ceremony.
-
National CCAs’ contest for the seven principal and prestigious
international cultural and charity ambassadorial title crowns of
the Commonwealth,
namely:-
“Miss Commonwealth International”,
“Miss Teen Commonwealth International”,
“Mrs
Commonwealth International”,
“Miss Commonwealth Africa”,
“Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific”,
“Miss Commonwealth Caribbean”, and
“Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic”
